A10 crash in Broxbourne on 17 April 1998 at 11:32 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier crashed on the A10 in Broxbourne at 11:32 on Friday 17 April 1998. The 35-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Apr 1998
- Friday, 11:32
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.76497, longitude -0.03034, in the EN11 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19984100A0156
- Council area
- Broxbourne
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 10
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 February 2006.
Slight
Car crash on the A10 in Broxbourne, 26 February 2006
14 m awayRef 20064100K0126
Slight
Car crash on the A10 in Broxbourne, 17 January 1982
20 m awayRef 19824141A3005
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A10 in Broxbourne, 8 October 1981
20 m awayRef 19814141A3069
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the A10 in Broxbourne, 9 September 2000
32 m awayRef 20004100K0377
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the A10 in Broxbourne, 5 June 2025
41 m awayRef 2025411603604
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A10 in Broxbourne, 24 August 2005
50 m awayRef 20054100K0495
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 19984100A0156 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Broxbourne road accident statistics for 1998.